1759 in poetry
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[edit] Events
- Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch becomes professor of rhetoric and poetry at the University of Jena.
- September 12 — Just before the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, in the Seven Years' War, British General James Wolfe is said to have recited Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751) to his officers, adding, "Gentlemen, I would rather have written that poem than take Quebec tomorrow".
[edit] Works published
- Francis Williams, "Ode to Governor Haldane", the first known published poem by a Jamaican black[1]
- Edward Young, Conjectures on Original Composition (criticism)
[edit] Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 25 – Robert Burns, also known as "Rabbie Burns", "Scotland's favourite son", "the Ploughman Poet", "the Bard of Ayrshire" and, in Scotland, simply "The Bard" (died 1796), Scottish poet and a lyricist, called the national poet of Scotland
- November 10 – Friedrich Schiller (died 1805), German poet and dramatist
- date not known – Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton, (died 1846), American[2]
[edit] Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- June 12 – William Collins (born 1721), 37, English poet
- August 24 – Ewald Christian von Kleist (born 1715), German poet
- Martha Brewster (after this year)
- Sir Charles Hanbury Williams (born 1708), English diplomat and satiric poet
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ "Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 9780313317477, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
- ^ Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
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